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Show ALMOST A DISASTROUS FIRE. A Small Blaze Produces a Small Scare In the Deseret Bank Building. What came very near to being a serious seri-ous conflagration broke out in the Deseret National . Bank building this morning. Mr. George Swan, Secretary of the Utah Central Railway Company, who has his office on. the, second floor, immediately over, the company's general office, had been in his office but a short time when he detected a 'smell of smoke, and proceeded pro-ceeded with Mr. Junck, whose office is immediately adjoining, to investigate the cause. The second room east of Mr. Swan's office was found to bo one mass of flames, and a general alarm was at once given to the men in the building. All of the fire grenades in the several offices, amounting to twenty-four, were broken and thrown into the blaze ,without the least apparent favorable result, and the hose was next brought into play, but had scarcely been gotten into position when it broke, literally immersing the gentlemen handling it." A bucket brigade got in effectual work and succeeded by a persistent effort in squelching the flames. . It was the greatest possible wonder that the whole building was kept from being enveloped, as the room in question was almost filled with, papers, belonging principally to the Horn Silver Mining Company. Many of ihe least valuable of these, together with a large table and everything else in the room, were con sumed or badly damaged, and the entire premises were seriously saturated with water, which continued dripping down into the rooms below most of the day. The fire undoubtedly resulted from a spark flying through the exposed hole in the flue which connects with the bank fire-place below, and also with the Utah Central general office. It occurred soon after the fire in the bank had been kindled. |